Five Injured in North Carolina After Car Hydroplanes
By Emily Mapp Brannon, Carolina Car Crash Injury Attorney
With summer comes afternoon thunderstorms often making for a wet drive home, drivers must be alert to how standing and flowing water on roads can create dangerous conditions. A reminder of this occurred in Shelby, North Carolina (NC), on July 25, 2011, when five people suffered injuries after a car hydroplaned and collided head on with a pickup truck. Visit our blogs to read “Wet Road Causes NC Accident in Which Five Were Injured.”
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